School for the Visitor Economy

The School for the Visitor Economy is a cross-university school providing the hospitality and tourism industries with an increased volume of qualified professionals to support rapid growth across the sector.

The school delivers industry-based programs across all qualification levels, from pre-vocational certificates through to PhDs.

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Successful students

The School for the Visitor Economy builds on VU’s long history of producing highly-qualified tourism and destination management graduates, locally and internationally. The school enables students to pathway seamlessly between vocational education courses at Victoria University Polytechnic and tertiary courses at VU. Students can re-enter education at any point in their career to top-up their skills or to qualify for promotion.

Hospitality & tourism courses

If you're a student interested in studying one of the School for the Visitor Economy courses, please head to the relevant course page, where you can find out more, apply for the course or submit a course enquiry.

Industry & employer partners

The visitor economy is Australia’s second largest export industry, generating an estimated 12% of all Australian jobs. It’s growing and will continue to grow.

A key challenge for the sector is attracting and keeping staff with the talent and capabilities necessary to service current demand and to drive growth into the future. Staff will need to have the diverse skill sets required to work in this customer-facing sector, including people, technical, digital and managerial skills.

VU’s School for the Visitor Economy is designed to work in partnership with the tourism, events and hospitality sectors to develop the capabilities and skills necessary to support a strong industry and its growth. We work closely with our industry partners to ensure graduates leave us with the capabilities and hands-on skills necessary to start adding value straight away.

VU also has strong research capabilities, with cross-disciplinary expertise able to respond to future industry challenges and development needs with evidence-based solutions.

Our business partners

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